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Ad fraud = ban from everything a huge company offers? Seems a tad much when the company literally reaches into your pocket by owning your smartphone and/or livelihood.

Bans should be limited in time and scale.

This really must be regulated, Google and co should not be able to lock you out of your digital identity.

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Do you have any example of situations where Google have "locked [anyone] out of [their] digital identity" for ad fraud?

As far as I can tell, this blog post is only mentioning the company's Android developer account being disabled. It in fact shows evidence that other access to the account is still available (e.g. screenshots from the account security checkup tool, which wouldn't be accessible if the whole account was disabled). This does seem limited in scale.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.)

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